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Federal budget 2018: Good bracket creep v bad brac...

Bracket creep is as maligned as it is misunderstood. Indeed, it can even be a good thing. But while most people probably know that bracket creep refers to people getting tipped into higher marginal tax...

Everyone is saying Tasmania is a becoming a clean energy powerhouse, so how do we make sure ordinary Tasmanians get a piece of the action?[This article was first published in the Hobart Mercury on 9 Feb 2018...

The answer to the meaning of life is, as we know thanks to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, "42". What is less well known is that the answer to what Australia's tax policy should be is also a single,...

Peter Dutton's best argument for Australia to lower its annual immigration intake is one word: Sydney. Australia's largest city has been made crowded, slow, expensive and unproductive by decades of unplanned...

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